Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked to reduced cancer risk, according to research described by Princeton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...

The 1986 disaster created an exclusion zone where abandoned pets and wildlife were exposed to extreme radiation, followed by evacuation that left animals to survive without human support. Descendants ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Analyzing wild boar samples was required to determine why radioactivity levels are not decreasing. Wild boars roaming the forests ...

When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than the initial blast. Researchers sequenced the genomes of Chernobyl ...

ORF Universum Nature is gearing up to release Radioactive Wolves—Chernobyl’s Forbidden Wilderness, a new and updated edition of the documentary Radioactive Wolves.

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Many animal mutations have been documented in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) following the infamous nuclear disaster in 1986, including Eastern tree frogs with darker skin that wards off radiation ...